Monument to the Green Mountain Boys, erected by the Ann Storey Chapter, NSDAR, 1915

History of the Green Mountain Boys

The Green Mountain Boys were the famous Vermont patriots who fought in the Revolutionary War and provided all types of services, such as sorties to suppress insurrections, searches for Tories and investigations of "alarms to the north."

They were originally organized before the Revolution by Ethan Allen to oppose the claims of the New York government to Vermont Territory. At the outbreak of the war in 1775, the Green Mountain Boys, under Ethan Allen and Seth Warner, with reinforcements from Massachusetts and Connecticut, seized British-held forts at Ticonderoga and Crown Point on Lake Champlain.

Ethan Allen and his brother, Ira Allen, lived just south of Manchester Township, County of Bennington, and served as leaders of the Green Mountain Boys.

In 1906, the townspeople of Manchester erected a monument to these patriots. Among the 123 names on the monument was the name of "Moses Sperry" (Moses Johnson Sperry), ancestor of the organizing regent of the Green Mountain Boys Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. We wish to honor him, as well as his fellow patriots, and bring a bit of the true Revolution and Vermont to Texas.

from the Green Mountain Boys Chapter yearbook, an annual publication